Courier Gazette

Issued^ H j e s w Thursday Saturday he ourier azette T Kntered u Second ClanC Mall Matte, -G Established January, 1846. By The Courler-Oaiette, 465 Main St. Rockland, Maine, Tuesday, August 1, 1939 TH R EE CENTS A COPY Volum e 9 4 ...................Number 9 1. The Courier-Gazette [EDITORIAL] THREL'TIMBS-A-WEEK FERNALD'S NOMINATION “POSSIBLE" FAMOUS ARTISTS' PAINTING BEAUTIFYING A CORNER “The Black Cat” Editor In alphabetical order—Roy Fernald of Winterport. William WM. O FULLER Associate Editor S. Linnell of Portland, Blin Page of Skowhegan. Frederick FRANK A WINSLOW Payne of Augusta, and Sumner Sewall of Bath. That is the To Be Exhibited At Port Clyde Aug. 1-7— The Esso Station To Be Erected On Blake Property present gubernatorial lineup In the Republican camp, always Hubecrlptlom *3 00 ner year payable It. advance: single copies three cents, i with the prospect that Attorney General Franz U. Burkett Hours 10 To 12, and 2 To 5 a Decided Improvement Advertising rates based upon circuit-i tlon and very reasonable of Portland may enter the lists, and that this talk of drafting NEWSPAPER HISTORY former Oov Percival Baxter may take definite form. Fred K. Port Clyde Is the scene this week his illustrations for Kenneth Rob Th» Rockland Oarette was estab Owen of the Portland Sunday Telegram has had his ear to The tragic death of C. M. Blase building passed into the possession lished In ’84o In 1874 the Courier was of an exhibition of paintings and of Mrs. Blake. established and consolidated with the the ground for a long time but admits that he cannot find out erts “Trending into Maine." which occurred 23 years ago. the Oaeette In 1882 The Free Press was wnat Baxtei would do If brought into the lineup by his prints by local and out of town John McCoy of Chadds Ford, coming September, left with his Next south of this .building was a ee<ahUthed In 1855 and in 1891 changed lot owned by Charles E Bicknell, II, name to the Tr'bune These papers friends. Nobody will question that Baxter made a fine gov artists. The exhibition, the first of Penn., is showing a large water widow and daughter the responsi consolidated Mar ti IT. 1897 upon which he erected a l 1* story ernor, or that he would be a formidable opponent In the guber its kind ever to be held in this vil color in which the handsome rocky bility of managing not only the wa'J building long occupied by the late St**.— ..*..-.---8| natorial race. But will he listen to the political sirens who shores of Maine have served as a ••• lage promises to attract wide atten paper and antique store which they George Orcutt and known as "The are singing Into his ear? Owen sees possible the nomination subject. Mr. McCoy’s entry is •» Do as well at you can today ♦ tion and approval since Port Clyde now occupy, but more than 20 other Post Card Station." The store was By The Roving Reporter — and perhaps tomorrow you may ♦ of Roy Fernald—although "not probable: Two years ago among the finest in the show. parcels of Northend real estate, vacant at the time the 'building was — be able to do better —Newton — Fernald received 25,000 votes in his race with Gov. Barrows, has long been famous as an art cen Miss Telka Ackley Is showing a ter and there has keenly been felt and the assumption that he may get more Is based on the delightful picture of an old fash ■Albert Lee Aldrich of Ontario, belief that he is flirting to advantage with the Townsendltes. the lack of an adequate exhibition ioned doll in which this young artist Calif., stopped at Hotel New Yorker W hat Jeffers Said Based also on the fact that he Is "ringing doorbells" while of the work Inspired by Its natural has very successfully captured the last week, had an amazing appetite the other candidates are dominant at this particular stage of beauty. spirit of the past. for food and drink and tiad both the game. Among the well known artists Stow Wengeroth, A. N A., well About the Camden Hill* served in hts hole! room After his o--------- o---------o whose work may be seen one must known lithographer. Is exhibiting I bill had mounted to *106 It occurred C. C. C. Camp* — Fore place first the name of Aaron Sim two of his lithographs, one of Mon- to the management that Albert Lee THE RELIEF VOTE hegan and the other of the shore see* a National Park mons who is responsible for arrang Aldrich might like to be paying The Institute of Public Opinion has been endeavoring to ing the exhibit and who will be in near Port Clyde. something on his bill. He met Lieut. Leon H. JefTers of Port ascertain how the "relief' vote will stand in the next Presi attendance during the week. Mr There will be many other famous the suggestion with tlie calm remark artists represented. Sidney Chase land. a U S. Naval officer now in dential election. Twenty-four percent believe they would be Simmons is showing several of his that he had only *2, and wanted to better off under the Republicans. 44 percent believe they would water colors that have gained him of Martinsville, Robert Gates of charge of the Camden CCC Camp, know if tlie management would like be worse off and 32 percent admit they could see no difference. wide recognition in St. George. Washington. D. C . are among those to have part of that. He was placed told the Augusta Kiwanls Club that Sixty-six percent say they would vote for Roosevelt if he runs Among the other exhibitors is the showing excellent and typical works in the Jug, where his menu will be the OCX? should develop Into a per again, but this Is considerably under the 82 percent who were equally well known Andrew Wyeth. The public is invited to attend I less varied, even if It is served in manent organization and he had fcr him as a second termer. Mr. Wyeth's brilliant watercolors the exhibition. his own room. reason to believe it would do so. have earned for him a nation-wide “Fuller" of Horse Point also has Rating Uie conservation of youth reputation. He is the son of the some fine paintings in the exhibi This happened a good many years tion. Mr. Verrier of Martinsville Is as paramount to the conservation of IN THE GREAT TRADITION eminent illustrator, N. C. Wyeth, ago when a former Kncx County expected to have a picture also. natural resources In the camp pro (Herald Tribune) who is also among the exhibitors man returned' from a long stay in gram. he declared the accomplish Mr Wyeth will be remembered for E. M S. the West. Surrounded by a group John L. Lewis's characterization of our Vice President of awe-stricken listeners In the bar ments in making young men want inevitably suggests historical comparisons Of course, when to work and to become "decent he calls Mr Oarner a “labor-baiting, pcker-playlng, whiskey- of the Lindsey House, he expatri American citizens" were sufficient drinking. evil old man" he attributes to him a category of s ns ated at length upop things he had to Justify permanency of the organi which only the stoutest of human kind can support in full AXEL GRONROS MASTERPIECE seen In the wild and wcolly West, zation. Lieut. JefTers said his vigor. Nevertheless one's mind goes back to national heroes Half a house is better than no house among them a big sheep ranch. "My who. If they missed one or another of the vices enumerated, father used to raise sheep," piped up opinion was not expressed for per yet qualified as spiritual ancestors of “Cactus Jack " There Famous Rockland Boat-Builder Launches 48- an undersized man in the group. sonal motives because his tour with was George Washington, for instance, whose tipple, though it | much of which has figured promi demolished, but the upstairs tene The Westerner looked scornfully the COC was limited happened to be either rum or strong wines, might easily have nently in the affairs of that locality. ment was rented by Frank Childs been whiskey had he lived in this day and age. There were Foot Sport-Fisherman “Wee-Gon” down at him. "How many sheep He told the Klwanians that CCC Today that section of Main street, The building was the property of boys behave better than college Andrew Jackson, Daniel Webster. Gen. Grant. Grover Cle-e- did your father have?" he thun land—all evil old men according to the Lewis formula. which lies directly south of Cot Mrs. Blake. youths and that little discipline is But the point we are anxious to stress is that Vice Presi tage street. Is being made to blos dered. "Twenty thousand rams and A handsome pleasure craft known • tically ready for sea at the moment, The third building which figured necessary In most camps. He dis dent Oarner actually belongs in the tradition of the great som anew through the demolition ol ewes accordingly, was the astound as the Wee-Gon. built for Charles • finishing touches only being neees- in the Standard 0.1 deal was a house closed a surprisingly high percent patriots we have mentioned not because he resembles them in two buildings of ancient vintage, on ing reply. Tlie man from the West the occupations of his off moments, but because, like them, he L.

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